Emergency Crime Scene and Biohazard Cleanup in Roseville, MN

Roseville is a first-ring Twin Cities suburb in Ramsey County that touches both Minneapolis and Saint Paul — it and Lauderdale are the only two suburbs adjacent to both core cities.

Roseville incorporated in 1948 with a population of just 4,589, splitting off from Rose Township, which had been established in 1858 and named for early settler Isaac Rose.

Roseville's population was 36,254 at the 2020 census, up from 33,660 in 2010.

Roseville has about 15,570 households according to Census Bureau figures for 2020-2024, averaging just 2.20 people per household.

The very first Target store in the world opened in Roseville on May 1, 1962, launched by Minneapolis-based Dayton Company at 1515 West County Road B; the original store was torn down in 2005 and replaced by a SuperTarget on the same site.

Roseville was also home to the first Best Buy store, which opened under the name Sound of Music before the chain took its current name.

Rosedale Center, which opened in 1969 as the third of Dayton-Hudson's four 'dale' shopping malls, remains one of the busiest malls in the Twin Cities and draws roughly 12 million visitors a year.

Roseville's other classic shopping center, Har Mar Mall, gives the city an outsized retail footprint for a suburb of its size.

Because so much of Roseville is commercially zoned, its residential property taxes are among the lowest in the Twin Cities metropolitan area.

The campus of the University of Northwestern – St. Paul, a private Christian university, sits partly within Roseville.